Oskar Rosa

Folly / or a Metabolic Monument

The new museum curated by Oskar Alexander Rosa explores a formal re-reading of the MAXXI archive. These re-readings become inscribed as misrepresentations and installed as follies to act as a collective counter-memory to the MAXXI context. The follies are the fun-house mirror reflection of their MAXXI counterpart.

The curator uses the staircase as apparatus, not to disorient the patron, but to portray a wicked reflection. The original MAXXI circulation is horizontal, yet the fun-house mirror twin tells its story vertically. While traversing the stair of the “face”, the original building behaves like it needs the new folly, even as the new folly is indifferent to these yearnings; a great paradox has been created.

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-Review (excerpt) by Christopher Filippidis